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People often ask me, “Why did you move from San Francisco to, uh, Detroit?” The answer is easy. In 10 years, San Francisco will be as good as it is today, but Detroit will be a roaring city once again, defining a new technology hub at the intersection of steel and bits.<p>When choosing to move to …

Inside the architect’s overlooked plan for Broadacre City<p>If you read enough about Frank Lloyd Wright, a standard narrative begins to emerge: There’s early Wright, where the brash young architect breaks from his Chicago School mentors to create the Prairie style and design such early icons as the …

A prefab house in the Pacific Northwest belies the stereotype that accessible design compromises on aesthetics.<p>When Judi and David Cornis, who is a wheelchair user, enlisted the Seattle-based prefab company FabCab to build their residence in Port Townsend, Washington, they asked for a space that …

Researchers at Yale, using chocolate as their study material (I bet a bit of <i>that</i> disappeared from storeroom shelves from time to time), recently concluded that chocolate tastes best when two or more people are eating it together. When the study’s participants (an easy position to fill, I’m …

While researching the book <i>Cure,</i> science writer Jo Marchant wanted to understand how distraction could be used to nullify pain, so she participated in a virtual reality experiment.<p>During the first part of the experiment, Marchant sat, without distraction, with her foot in a box of unbearably hot …